Wednesday, March 4th

Another busy day for the students in C-7 & C-8. We started the morning with morning meeting. Our meeitng today was in Spanish. Our question of the day today was do you like to dance. We learned that there is a greater number of people in our class that like to dance, than the number of people who do not like to dance. We wrote a number sentence to show this 30 > 6, and 6 < 30. During our reading workshop minilesson we practiced vizualizing the information that we read in non-ficition books. The green gators listened to a book about sharks and tried to make a picture in their mind of what the shark looked like and what it was doing. Ask your child to descibe their vizualization. The red rhinos also practiced vizualizing. They listened to a book about Hibernation, and drew the pictures that they "saw" in their minds, and compared their drawings to the photographs in the book.

We headed to the multipurpose room for some much needed recess. We had fun racing eachother! After our recess we returned to the classroom for read aloud. Today we listened to the story "Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late." We were excited to see another example of a character in a book using persuasion to get their way. We were able to identify the pigeons claim (what he wanted") and his evidnece (why he thought he should get what he wanted). Ask your child to tell you what the piegon's claim and evidence was. After our read aloud we spent some time practicing sorting our words as fast as we could in our word study routine...speed sort. Then, during math, the red rhinos worked on identifying the place value of different numbers and played the game guess my rule. The green gators counted the number of chairs in our classroom, and practiced saying numbers through 35 in Spanish. We are continuing to practice counting by 10's and by 2's as well. Please ask your child to show you how they can count efficiently!